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Post by sittingstill on Jul 12, 2014 9:45:32 GMT -5
Spinners are listing Rob Smorol as today's starter.
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Post by sittingstill on May 25, 2014 10:18:16 GMT -5
Jays Journal has the pre-season summary of what's up with Liz.
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Post by sittingstill on Apr 1, 2014 19:14:13 GMT -5
Much worse for Perkins than Moore. XST was a realistic projection for Moore. Perkins, if healthy, not so much. He was working out with Salem in ST, meaning he was on Salem/Greenville cusp. Did you see Perk play in a game? I don't think I saw him at all in game play (between 3/17-3/24). FWIW, since someone mentioned him above, I saw Allday in a few outfield drills but only saw him coach in actual game play.
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Post by sittingstill on Mar 30, 2014 13:21:44 GMT -5
Sweet--thanks! (And thanks for the tweet!)
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Post by sittingstill on Mar 30, 2014 10:45:50 GMT -5
Are the 2014 rosters linked in the heading? Clicked "Projected 2014" gets you projected 2015; manually changing the date does bring up the regular 2014 page. (I know it's the time of year when everything changes, but it's also the time of year when folks are looking for that info!)
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Post by sittingstill on Dec 30, 2013 22:28:31 GMT -5
It wouldn't surprise me if some MLB team is pumping big money into research surrounding sight and processing information quickly. Pitch recognition might be learned to some extent, but it think it has more to do with a skill you are born with like speed or quickness. I would think there is a way to measure this ability in a more efficient way that could be extremely beneficial to teams. The time a batter has to react is so short that any advantage is huge. I saw a demo of the Vizual Edge system in Cleveland a few years ago, which was fascinating, though I can't attest to its utility. They did say that Manny Ramirez was off the charts in terms of visual recognition. One of the presenters at the 2011 or 2012 Saber Seminar indicated that his best (extrapolated) guess from his research on visual recognition was that the time it took an individual to recognize something (e.g. a pitch) might be relatively fixed, but that the speed with which he could react to that recognition (to swing or not to swing) might be improvable. But I was really coming in here to point out that Mookie will be at the New Stars for Young Stars Jimmy Fund benefit in Boston on January 11.
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Post by sittingstill on Nov 10, 2013 16:07:02 GMT -5
On the Winter Leagues page--I've never heard Estrellas Orientales called Orientales ["Eastern"] for short, only Estrellas ["Stars"]. Some of the others are inconsistent in usage and it matters less--I hear Toros, not Este, but Licey as often as Tigres and Escogido much more than Leones.
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Post by sittingstill on May 9, 2013 15:12:36 GMT -5
Players the 60-day DL is a major-league disabled list, so yes, he'd need to be "called up" in a technical sense. Wouldn't need to be with the team or anything, but he would collect a Major League paycheck. Is it that simple, though? I can't find any provision in the rules for moving a player from the minor league 7-day DL to the major league 60-day DL. He was optioned to the minors 3/12, started the season on the PawSox roster, then placed on the PawSox DL 4/7 (retroactive to 4/4, the date of the first PawSox game). Though he didn't play for the PawSox, I think if they didn't establish his injury while he was on the major league roster in spring, he can't be placed now on the major league DL due to an injury incurred while on a minor league roster. (Or, more specifically, I think they'd actually have to activate him as a major leaguer, then DL him, which would restart the clock.) I realize it's irrelevant for now, and it's possible that players on the 25-man will continue to develop crippling injuries faster than players either get added to the 40-man or recover from DL stints and need roster spots, but I'd be interested to know if they could switch him to the 60-day so easily. Also, I kind of hope De La Torre doesn't actually make his debut until tomorrow, because I'd like to be there with the camera. So I'm hoping for the Lackey CG.
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Post by sittingstill on May 7, 2013 12:03:59 GMT -5
Iglesias grounded out to first base before coming out of the game. Brian MacPherson said on Twitter tonight that he'd made kind of a lax throw to first base the inning prior. Just took another look at these in the milb.tv archive. He made a sensational-but-normal-for-Iggy play on Rich Thompson's grounder in the fourth. My sense watching the Bourgeois grounder was that he should have held the ball--he threw in midair, and the throw was well up the line, with Snyder snagging it a couple of steps off the base. I thought seeing it live that Bourgeois would have beaten a good throw, but that's less clear on replay. Iggy did then stop several steps out of the box on the ground ball to the first baseman. He could see the play in front of him, and he wasn't going to cover 60 feet faster than Gimenez would cover 6, but it's probably not the attitude that a manager wants to see.
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Post by sittingstill on May 4, 2013 19:21:57 GMT -5
May be he wasn't running hard on a grounder? Just speculating here. Considering that his last at-bat was a ground ball to the first baseman, I sure hope that's not the reason. Would be pretty silly if so. The "running hard on a ground ball" thing is so overblown. Not sure why this happened, despite being at the game, but as someone who photographs a lot of at-bats, I can say that Iggy runs like hell if he gets the bat on the ball.
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Post by sittingstill on Apr 15, 2013 7:48:03 GMT -5
Per the PawSox game story from yesterday's game, Wright will pitch Tuesday. I didn't hear anything about why he didn't pitch yesterday, so I'm left to wonder whether they wanted him pitching closer to the Aceves slot in the rotation.
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Post by sittingstill on Feb 23, 2013 21:54:32 GMT -5
Anyone have any idea what the minor league report/workout dates are? I'm heading down to Fort Myers March 9th-15th and want to catch as many minor league games as I can. I know they play the Twins the 13-14th according to the Rochester Redwings website, but the Pawsox/Seadogs have nothing posted yet. The PawSox have posted their spring schedule here. (I think they inadvertently buried it in the site redesign.) March 13 is the first game; before that they'll probably play intrasquad games during the time you're there. For those not familiar with the way the schedule works: right now the Sox, Twins, Rays and Orioles play in a round robin, and for each pair on a given day, if AAA/AA are home, the A teams are away.
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Post by sittingstill on Dec 11, 2012 14:29:13 GMT -5
Scott Shuster has posted the confirmed-thus-far lineup for this year's New Stars for Young Stars Jimmy Fund benefit, Saturday January 19 at Jillian's in Boston: www.jimmyfund.org/eve/event/new-stars/default.htmlPresented by the Jimmy Fund Council of Greater Boston, this Boston Red Sox autograph-signing event provides a unique and memorable opportunity to meet and greet some of the newer Red Sox players, as well as many of the up-and-coming minor league players from the Red Sox organization.Tickets start at $89 and VIP tickets are $250. All proceeds from the 2013 event will benefit the Jimmy Fund.
The 2013 event welcomes:
Ryan Kalish — Red Sox outfielder Rich Hill — Red Sox pitcher Craig Breslow — Red Sox pitcher Brandon Workman — 2012 SoxProspects.com Rookie of the Year Anthony Ranaudo — Red Sox first round pick 2010 Deven Marrero — Red Sox first round pick 2012 Blake Swihart — Soxprospects.com #8 rated prospect Garin Cecchini — Red Sox 2012 Baserunner of the Year
Scott also noted over on SoSH that "I feel confident that we are going to be announcing some significant additional players in the near future."
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Post by sittingstill on Sept 16, 2012 18:24:14 GMT -5
All he is doing right now is learning how to fail. Continuing this short sighted approach will ruin this prospect. While I think this reasoning is often valid, I don't think it applies to Iglesias right now. He's very confident, and he's very ambitious, and a couple of weeks playing regularly over his level at the end of the season is not going to break him. If handled right, it serves as both a carrot (he wants badly to be in the majors) and a stick (the best way for him to go into the offseason, I think, is precisely by experiencing the ways in which he's falling short of being able to play in the majors). Every time he's started to make progress in the minors in terms of having good at-bats, he's gotten hurt, and not playing regularly seemed to negate the work he'd done in taking the right approach at the plate. Bringing him up when the games were meaningless, and not playing him at all for a few days, and then not playing him regularly--that's a problem, IMO. I think he would benefit in the long run from a couple of weeks of playing every day.
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Post by sittingstill on Sept 5, 2012 11:56:27 GMT -5
The PawSox start their postseason run tonight. To honor the occasion, here's a few shots from Monday's season finale (from the main gallery here). Is Rich Sauveur getting in a little knuckleball practice? For Steven Wright, it's not practice--it's the real deal. Yankees starter Michael O'Connor. (Could we find a way to get this guy, so I can get a jersey?) Bryce Brentz finally got that first AAA hit out of the way. Jeremy Hazelbaker watches a ball in flight. Ryan Dent prepares for a pitch. Hadn't expected to see Scott Atchison rehabbing. J.C. Linares reels in a fly ball. Brock Huntzinger on the mound. Josh Fields gets a little extra deception by hiding the ball. The Yankees would wrap up with DH Ryan J. Baker on the mound... ... and the PawSox fought back with eventual winner Jon Hee.
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Post by sittingstill on Sept 4, 2012 9:41:31 GMT -5
Still working on these, but here's a preview! Will be adding to the gallery here. This year's corn seemed a little less navigable than usual. And some folks (including Ryan Pressly) seemed to play along... ... with slightly better acting than others (that would be you, Jeremy Kehrt). Derrik Gibson looks the part. Mike Antonellis is always brilliant on this day. My first shots of Allen Webster. I'm guessing Drew Hedman's sunglasses aren't old-time authentic. Ryan Pressly shows off more than his acting chops. I'd give Michael Olmsted the award for most plausibly having emerged from the corn without having walked behind it first.
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Post by sittingstill on Aug 31, 2012 20:02:18 GMT -5
Testing out the new board with some shots from last weekend. Still editing; full gallery is here. (Easy link to my Sea Dogs shots here!) The camera will be disappointed if Xander Bogaerts moves off SS. Nice to see Jeremy Hazelbaker have a multi-homer game before his promotion. Zach Gentile gets the tag down. (I'm always happy when the photo evidence backs up the umpire!) Chris Martin pitches, expressively. Okay, I'm a sucker for 'Sweet Caroline"--and even more so when the vendors will sing with frozen lemonade mics. First time I'd seen Michael Olmsted. Something about the bristly little mustache made me wonder if he's a walrus magically realizing his dream as a human baseball player. (Yeah, this is why I take photos and don't analyze...) More Xander. The late afternoon light turns everything arty!
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